By: Bas Naafs Friday March 4th marks the 80th birthday of James ‘Jim’ Clark. On this day in 1938 Clark was born in the Scottish village of Kilmany. The only thing t...
'Musical chairs'-style qualifying will take place ahead of the Melbourne season opener in just over two weeks. Earlier, Bernie Ecclestone had said that although the F1 C...
Baku City Circuit is today delighted to announce two-time Formula 1 World Champion and current McLaren-Honda driver, Fernando Alonso, as the official ambassador for the 2016 For...
Williams driver Valtteri Bottas has set the fastest time on day two of test two in Barcelona. The Finn used supersoft tyres for a 1:23.261. Lewis Hamilton needed more than three...
Bernie Ecclestone is putting pressure on Hockenheim to up its game in order to secure Germany's future on the F1 calendar. Hope that the Nurburgring might bounce back from i...
Valtteri Bottas has counted himself as not among those drivers who are dieting hard ahead of the 2016 season. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo admits he was told to lose 5 kilogr...
Frederic Vasseur, the new team boss at Renault, has admitted neither team driver has a guaranteed future with the French marque beyond 2016. "Both drivers have a contract f...
Renault had promised to do some qualifying runs this morning and kept that promise, but Kevin Magnussen's 1:23.933 on supersofts was not enough for the first position. Lewis...
Felipe Nasr admits Sauber's newly-launched car may not be 100 per cent ready for the 2016 season opener in Australia in just over two weeks. While the rest of the teams were...
With every passing test day, the feeling in the Barcelona paddock is growing ever stronger that Mercedes will decimate all comers early in 2016. On Tuesday, as the last four day...
Fernando Alonso says his future rests on the reforms that are slated to revolutionise formula one next year. 2017 will be the third and last in the Spaniard's current McLare...
F1 officials have come under fire for what major newspapers including the Independent and Telegraph are calling the 2016 qualifying "farce". Mere weeks before the new ...
Red Bull Racing is pleased to announce the extension of their innovative partnership with leading engineering simulation software developer, ANSYS, for a further three years. AN...
The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team today announced a multi-year partnership agreement with Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG), a market-leading independent solid-state array vendo...
Rare sounds of praise for Renault are emerging from the Red Bull camp ahead of the 2016 season. Last year, the strained relationship between the two parties broke down completel...
Sergio Marchionne on Tuesday said the serene winter pre-season enjoyed so far by Mercedes makes him "worry". Earlier, the Ferrari president had targeted a winning star...
The first day of the second day of winter testing has given a Mercedes on top. Nico Rosberg did a 1:23.022. It looked like Valtteri Bottas was not much slower, but there was a b...
Sauber is targeting the midfield in 2016. Last year, the Swiss team finished a lowly eighth in the constructors' championship, and late on Monday it became the last team to ...
Ferrari's hopes for 2016 rest on the progress Mercedes has been able to make over the winter. That is the claim of Maurizio Arrivabene, the Ferrari team boss, amid media rep...
Not every driver is on board with F1's plans to cover the cockpits. After Grand Prix Drivers' Association chief Alex Wurz declared recently that "all the drivers ho...
Mercedes has kicked it up a notch on the morning of the first day at the second week of winter testing in Barcelona. Nico Rosberg did a 1:23.022 on the soft compound, by far the...
Manor Racing will retain Jordan King in the role of Development Driver for a second season. Jordan, 22, will continue to play a supporting role within the 2016 driver line-up, a...
Hopes are increasing that the embattled US grand prix will in fact take place in October. Currently, the popular Austin race is marked as "subject to confirmation" on ...
Fernando Alonso says he almost switched to Mercedes last year in a move that would have involved Lewis Hamilton replacing him at Ferrari. As it became clear during the 2014 seas...
Scuderia Toro Rosso has launched the colour scheme for their 2016 car in the pitlane at Circuit de Catalunya. The new STR11 made its track debut last week in a dark blue interim...
Vijay Mallya has hit back at speculation his involvement in the F1 team Force India is coming to an end. Last week, after a long battle with Diageo, the flamboyant Indian steppe...
This is the line-up for the second week of winter testing in 2016: Team Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Mercedes Rosberg/Hamilton Ha...
Daniel Ricciardo is still refusing to rule himself out of the running for a future switch to Ferrari. Earlier, the Australian predicted a frenzied 'silly season' this ye...
Sauber has launched their new car for the upcoming 2016 season. The Swiss outfit ran the old C34 during the first week of testing, the new C35 is ready for the second test sessi...
Ahead of the final week of pre-season testing, it seems Mercedes and Ferrari are still ahead of the pack in 2016. Finishing third for the past two years was Williams, but Felipe...
Williams Martini Racing is pleased to confirm that Alex Lynn will be continuing as the Williams Development Driver for the 2016 Formula One World Championship season, a position...
Renault is likely to start work almost immediately on its car for 2017. Last week, acknowledging that the 2016 machine is a hastily-compiled version of a car designed by Lotus f...
F1's new 'musical chairs' qualifying format may not happen at all in 2016. Earlier, the changes touted to mix up the grid were approved by the F1 Commission, but Ber...
F1's new 'musical chairs' qualifying format has hit a roadblock. Bernie Ecclestone told F1 business journalist Christian Sylt that Formula One Management's softw...
Rio Haryanto's manager has clarified reports the Indonesian rookie might not complete the entire 2016 season. We reported this week that, although backed by Indonesia via th...
Renault is not ruling out launching a new car later this year, team boss Frederic Vasseur has admitted. The early promise of the newly-launched RS16 has been mixed, as the car i...
Vijay Mallya, the Force India boss and co-owner, will receive $75 million to walk away from a company. United Spirits, the flagship of the United Breweries company Mallya took o...
Lewis Hamilton has launched another attack on the latest rule changes in formula one. Earlier this week, the reigning triple world champion said moves to make the cars wider but...
James Key on Thursday clarified reports that Toro Rosso did not take its 2016 car to the first Barcelona test. Carlos Sainz had been quoted as saying that, amid the Faenza team&...
By: Bas Naafs The 2005 and 2006 Formula One seasons saw Fernando Alonso take the world championship in his Renault R25 and R26. Characterized by reliability and traction,...
Force India has avoided repeating the crisis of last winter. A year ago, the Silverstone based team's early campaign was derailed by financial problems, reportedly as suppli...
Felipe Massa is not sure F1 fans should expect Mercedes to be toppled from its back-to-back title-winning perch in 2016. As the Brazilian got his first taste of Williams' ne...
McLaren-Honda is right to be keeping its expectations for 2016 in check, according to the British team's former long-time test driver Pedro de la Rosa. Now 45, de la Rosa ha...
Red Bull Racing is very pleased to announce the extension and expansion of its relationship with innovation partner AT&T, the global integrated communications and entertainm...
Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen has set the fastest time on day four in Barcelona. The Finn did a 1:23.477 on the ultrasoft compound. McLaren had a disastrous day with only three ...
The car being tested by Toro Rosso this week is a cross between the 2015 and 2016 machines, driver Carlos Sainz has revealed. Firstly, the car is being run at Barcelona in an in...
Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton has slammed F1's proposed car 'revolution' for 2017. Although the final vote has been delayed until late April, the sport'...
Paddock opinion at the Barcelona test has been divided in two, after the FIA confirmed that the F1 Commission in Geneva "unanimously" approved a new qualifying format....
Renault team boss Frederic Vasseur has slammed suggestions he is not fully behind 2016 recruit Kevin Magnussen. Particularly in the Danish media, much has been made of Vasseur...
Kimi Raikkonen is in first place after the morning session of day four of winter testing in Barcelona. The Ferrari driver did a 1:23.477 on the ultrasoft compound. McLaren is su...
A Mexican race official hopes his colleagues north of the border can end the uncertainty surrounding the 2016 US grand prix. A government funding dispute has thrown the popular ...
A cloud may already be hanging above Rio Haryanto's new race seat at Manor. The 23-year-old rookie secured the drive when his sponsor, the Indonesian state-owned oil company...
Volkswagen has renewed its objection to approving a formula one project. Recently, Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne said he believes VW brand Audi was "quite ready"...
The mood at Red Bull is upbeat, even though part-time designer Adrian Newey admits the RB12 will not be a Mercedes-beater in 2016. But that is not because the car is bad, team o...
Franz Tost has hit out at F1's system for penalising drivers. Max Verstappen, the teen sensation who thrilled fans with his audacious overtaking moves last year, enters 2016...
Day 3 of testing in Barcelona has given a remarkable result. Force India ended on top with a 1:23.110 for Nico Hülkenberg on the supersoft tyres. In second place it was Rom...
Fernando Alonso slammed a British journalist for having suggested that Tuesday was effectively 'D-day' in his formula one career. London's Times newspaper had publis...
Niki Lauda has shown the thumbs-up to F1's impending change to the qualifying format for 2016. At meetings in Geneva on Tuesday, the sport collectively agreed that every 90 ...
Pascal Wehrlein is determined to make his mark on formula one this year. Backed by Mercedes, the reigning DTM champion makes his grand prix debut in 2016 with Manor, just as the...
The morning session of the third day of testing in Barcelona has ended with Nico Hülkenberg on top. The Force India driver set a 1:25.286 as best time, on the medium compou...
Felipe Massa has taken issue with reports Williams has been too conservative with the design of its 2016 car. Following the FW38's launch, a correspondent from Brazil had re...
The F1 world on Tuesday got its first good look at Pirelli's new 'ultra soft' tyre. The best time posted by Sebastian Vettel was particularly noteworthy, as the Ferr...
Gene Haas insists he is "not desperate" to fill up the livery of the new American team's 2016 livery. It is notable that, despite the huge interest in F1's new...
Toro Rosso has admitted time was so tight in the winter that a livery for the 2016 car had to be put on the backburner. "We just ran out of time," technical boss James...
F1 looks set for a radical shakeup to its qualifying format, according to widespread reports in the specialist press. The news, yet to be announced by the governing body, follow...
Sebastian Vettel is still on top after the second day of testing in Barcelona. The Ferrari driver needed to use the ultrasofts to fend off Daniel Ricciardo from Red Bull Racing....
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